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===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
Old | Texts dating to the Middle Ages, especially from Georgian, Armenian, and Adyghe sources, show that Old Vezhuan originally was a VSO language, but its syntax changed to a SOV word order, an areal feature of the Caucasus Sprachbund. Because the nominative and accusative cases have merged into the direct case, word order is strict. | ||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||